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9.5 IDT Descriptors
The IDT may contain any of three kinds of descriptor:
- Task gates
- Interrupt gates
- Trap gates
Figure 9-3
illustrates the format of task gates and 80386 interrupt gates
and trap gates. (The task gate in an IDT is the same as the task gate
already discussed in
Chapter 7.)
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